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Best, Bears Add Consistency To Their Running Game
Jahvid Best has long been a highlight reel machine running the football, but one of the knocks on him has been a reputation for a lack of toughness. It was felt that, for all his speed, when you...
Game Log Positional Breakdown: RBs. A Database of Running Stats and Analysis.
It is no secret that Florida State plans to run the ball a lot this year. The offensive line under Rick Trickett is much better at run blocking than pass blocking. Also, keeping the other ...
Dollars and Sense Part Five: Marginal Payroll and Marginal Wins
In this fashionably late session of Purple Row Academy, I expand on last week's column about payroll efficiency by focusing a little more heavily on the concept of marginal wins and their relatio...
Quick Quiz - Hat Tip to Beyond the Box Score
1. Four of the top eight players on Yahoo's Player Rater are 2nd Basemen. Name the four 2B. 2. This 13th ranked player has been benched 4 times in his team's first 15 games despite having no in...
The 2009 Washington Nationals, The Federal Baseball.com W.A.R. Effort And Darren Aronofsky's "Pi"...
(ed. note - Join Today's Game Thread HERE.") My mathematical education ends with Algebra II some 15 years ago or more (I just can't add the years :(...but my education ends after Algebra II...
In AD 2009 W.A.R was beginning.
What happen? With the start of the season nearly upon us, it's time to revisit our Wins Above Replacement projection (click the 'WAS' tab on the bottom), in which we try to project how well the Nats ...
It's the Rock M Nation Weekly Podcast!
That's right, it's already your favorite time of the week again--time for another RMN Weekly Podcast! In this edition, rptgwb and I discuss... The Matt Eberflus Era (it wasn't as bad as you w...
Can Adam Dunn And The Washington Nationals Just Accept Each Other Already, I'm Tired Of Dreading It...
Put On Your Speculatin' Caps... Washington Post sports writer Chico Harlan took stock of the interest in free agent outfielder/first baseman Adam Dunn the other day in a Nationals Journal post e...
Baylor Football: Beyond the Box Score 2007
By god, I'm putting the same energy into this as I have for the others. Or I'm at least going to try. Or try to try. Initial Stat Assault It's easy to pin Baylor down in a "bad offense, ...
Beyond the Box Score: Win Correlations (Part Two)
So in yesterday's WinCorr conversation, I mentioned that while WinCorr could be (and was) used to look at the overall stats that are most directly connected to success on the field. I also menti...
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